Results of Gender Equality Charter Marks Trial

Five universities and 17 individual departments have been recognised for their progress in advancing gender equality in arts, humanities and social science careers in higher education. All have achieved Bronze level in our trial gender equality charter mark.

Based on the principles of ECU’s highly successful Athena SWAN Charter for women in science, the gender equality charter mark aims to address chronic gender imbalance and underrepresentation in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Gender equality charter mark results

Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) lecture series.

LJMU is hosting a public talk presented by Andrew Miller MP, Chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee of the House of Commons; Chair of the Parliamentary & Scientific Committee; Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum (PICTFOR) and a Member of the Liaison Committee.

Lecture title: “Universities should do more to keep women in science” (report released by the House of Commons – Government’s response to the under representation of women in STEM in UK Universities).

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2014

Time: 1.00 – 3.30pm: lecture will last approx. 45 minutes followed by a Q&A session

Venue: Upper Lecture Theatre, Peter Jost Centre, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF

Event Chair: Professor Robin Leatherbarrow (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Scholarship, Research and Knowledge Transfer)

Arrival and Lunch from 1.00pm.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Nigel Weatherill will open the event at 2.00pm

The lecture is free but you need to register attendance in advance here